| Description |
558 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm |
| Contents |
Who killed the Bordens? / Julius Chamber -- The fall of king John / A staff reporter -- A cure for love / H.G. Wells -- Triangle of death / W.J. Carney -- What Americans think about the Boer War / Winston Spencer Churchill -- A memorandum of sudden death / Frank Norris -- Mr. Dooley guesses about women / Finley Peter Dunne -- Mr. Dooley on the White House expense account / Finely Peter Dunne -- The adventures of the dancing men / A. Conan Doyle -- A presidential epigram / F.A. Emery -- The original of Sherlock Holmes / Harold Emery Jones -- Out of paradise / E.W. Hornung -- The two-gun man / Stewart Edward White -- The patent medicine conspiracy against the freedom of the press / Samuel Hopkins Adams -- Will the "free" press free itself? / An editorial bulletin -- The story of an eye-witness / Jack London -- Hearst and heartism / Frederick Palmer -- Miss Hamilton's endurance / Gelett Burgess -- Aerial football: the new game / George Bernard Shaw -- The city saloon and viscious politics / Will Irwin -- Indignant letter / George Bernard Shaw -- The new world / Richard Harding Davis -- Disentangling old Duggie / P.G. Wodehouse |
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Sealed orders / Helen Churchill Candee -- The Zayat kiss / Sax Rohmer -- What is an American? / Charles W. Eliot -- A reporter's diary / Ring W. Lardner -- The Yanks go through / William Slavens McNutt -- Why I hate to walk / Babe Ruth -- Come out of the cave / Walter Camp -- One reel of autobiography / Douglas Fairbanks -- My bootlegger / Samuel Hopkins Adams -- A big catch on rum row / William G. Sheperd -- If you know what I mean / Don Marquis -- The wedding dress / Louis Bromfield -- Journey's end / Octavus Roy Cohen -- The odor of sanctity / Stephen Vincent Benet -- The table / John V. A. Weaver -- When the air raiders come / William Mitchell -- She didn't mean to do it / Alexander Woolcott -- One-eye Connelly ; On earth, good will / John B. Kennedy -- After three years / Dana Burnet -- The end of the story / J.P. Marquand -- The four horsemen / Knute K. Rockne -- Freshman / Corey Ford -- A man must fight / Gene Tunney -- Good-night lady / John B. Kennedy -- How Huey Long gets away with it / Walter Davenport -- Says Hitler / T.R. Ybarra -- The three wise guys / Damon Runyon -- Love, action, laughter / Budd Schulberg -- |
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Little stranger / Walter Henry -- Hornblower and His Majesty / C.S. Forester -- They think of everything / Pat Frank -- Four and twenty blackbirds / Agatha Christie -- Death of a truck / Talbot Johns -- Miracle from heaven / MacKinlay Kantor -- Lifeboat / Alfred Hitchcock and Harry Sylvester -- Hash Mark / John McNulty -- Polish death camp / Jan Karski -- Prayer for children / Francis J. Spellman -- Revenge / Samuel Blas -- The trap / Howard Bloomfield -- Long-distance call / Jack Finney -- What you owe your country / General Omar N. Bradley -- Last kiss / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The challenge / William R. Scott -- The men who put the heart in Heartbreak Ridge / Stan Carter -- Crossing the last frontier / Dr. Wernher von Braun -- San Francisco: April 18, 1906 / Robert O'Brien -- A visit with Mr. Fitz and Nashua / John McNulty -- Terror at Webb's landing / Frank Harvey -- Five desperate hours in cabin 56 / Cornelius Ryan -- Contents of the dead man's pocket / Jack Finney. |
| Added Author |
McArdle, Kenneth, editor.
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